It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of The Olive Mill in Geneva Illinois. They have the most amazing and affordable balsamic vinegar I’ve had. Love love love it. So when they accidentally shipped me two bottles of chipotle olive oil, I decided I’d give away the second one. After all, I just don’t have room for more than 7 bottles of oil at a time in my 10×10 kitchen.

I am going to win this contest or spam your blog trying. Since I will surely post multiple comments I’m going to save the better ones for later and suggest that I might first try frying spam in chipotle olive oil and then bringing spam chipotle olive oil tacos to work to share with everyone at break. Because spam is meant for sharing.

Since I went back and read the rules and now I have to come up with vegan ideas I’ll suggest a caesar salad. If I had to make a caesar salad vegan, it would definitely need some kick, so I’d start out with this chipotle olive oil. And then I would scratch my head real hard trying to figure out what a vegan substitute for raw eggs and anchovies would be.

Well if I won a bottle I would have to try it with BBQ tofu. I made a vegan BBQ sauce once which consisted mainly of coffee and molasses, with a bunch of other stuff thrown in. It was better than it sounds, but I bet I could top that achievement with this bottle of chipotle olive oil.

In order to justify all my earlier comments about spam, which you would assume is not vegan, I looked up a bunch of vegan spam recipes on teh interwebz. I might try one of those recipes out but more likely I would make a veggie burger maybe using soy beans or lentils and chipotle olive oil. On whole grain bread.

Can I make a vegan jalapeno corn bread? That has to be a thing. Then I’d saute some more spices and peppers in the chipotle olive oil to really amp up the flavor and I’d soak my jalapeno corn bread in spicy olive oil.

Hello! It’s so obvious, why has no one mentioned it? How about a marinade for… olives! I could think of so many ways to eat spicy chipotle olives! If you were so inclined, you might even doctor up a martini with a little chipotle olive action. That would probably be pretty intense. I might just snack on them, though, as a little garnish or maybe a mid-afternoon munchie fix. Along the same lines I think it might work well with cashews and I’m even going to cram both of those ideas into one comment.

How about to saute green beans! I just had some Thai green beans for dinner, which I ordered “just a little spicy,” and the waitress then came over and laughed at me as I had tears in my eyes and was choking on the incredible amount of flavor on that little plate. But it gave me the idea that I could saute some green beans in chipotle olive oil, so maybe if I win this contest my suffering will have been worth something.